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Samsung’s Galaxy Ring Works Best Beside a Galaxy Phone
Samsung charges no subscription for the Galaxy Ring, but its setup app needs Android and two of its insights need a Galaxy AI phone.
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Is the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 Still Worth Buying After Gen 3?
Meta lists the same camera specifications for the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 as for the Gen 3, while the Gen 2 gives up an hour of battery, a microphone and the action button.
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Review
What the Fitbit Air Does Before You Pay for Premium
The Fitbit Air's free tier already logs heart rate, sleep stages, blood oxygen and AFib alerts. Premium mainly buys the Gemini coach.
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Guide
Set Up Fall Detection on an Apple Watch or Galaxy Watch
Samsung ships Hard fall detection switched off, and Apple turns Fall Detection on by itself only for owners 55 and older.
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Guide
Plaud Note Call Recording: How to Capture Both Sides
A Plaud Note Pro or Note hears the caller through the back of your phone, so earphones leave only your voice in the file and a speakerphone call needs the recorder on the table.
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Guide
How to Use the Oura Ring 5 Sizing Kit
A Ring 4 size or a jewelry size does not carry over to the Oura Ring 5, and Oura allows a single size exchange per ring.
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Buying an Ultrahuman Ring PRO After Oura’s New Lawsuit
You can still buy an Ultrahuman Ring PRO in the US, and a ring you already own works as before. Oura's new patent lawsuit,…
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Happy Ring Blood Pressure Readings Are FDA-Cleared for Ages 22 to 50
The blood pressure numbers on the Happy Ring are FDA-cleared for adults aged 22 to 50 who don't have atrial fibrillation and aren't pregnant.…
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How Soon Will Oura Cardio Effort and Automatic VO2 Max Appear?
If you wear an Oura Ring from Gen3 onward and pay for the membership, Cardio Effort will start rating your workouts within about two…
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What a Bee Frontier Keeps Without Bee Pro
Amazon's Bee Frontier went on sale on October 15 for $74.99, and it never keeps a recording of what it hears. The audio is…
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Samsung Health Sleep Coaching Now Starts After Three Nights
Three nights of sleep data in the past two weeks is now enough to start Samsung Health Sleep Coaching, down from seven nights within…
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Galaxy Watch7 Review: Which Phone Gets the Whole Watch?
Best Buy's best-selling smartwatch is a 2024 Samsung, and the phone it pairs with decides how much of the watch you get.
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Does the Fitbit Edge Need Premium for Blood Pressure Trends?
Blood pressure trends appear among the health features on Google's setup page for the new Fitbit Edge. The same page says you need Google…
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Smart Glasses in Court: Who Has to Hand Them Over
If you wear prescription Ray-Ban Meta glasses, take a regular pair to jury duty in New York. Since July 20, every courthouse run by…
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Apple Watch Series 12 Review: Live Rewind Needs an iPhone 16
Apple's Series 12 adds a five-second heart rate reading and a microphone for Live Rewind, and only owners of an iPhone 16 or later will get the second.
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